You don’t become an alcoholic for a single episode. I get US and EU are very different when it comes to alcohol consumption, but if OP would see alcohol as the only way to manage all of his problems, ok, it’s dangerous, but if he reckon this is a one of a kind solution, it’s just a bad choice
Also WhatsApp is from 2009, Signal 2015 (but gained popularity later) as Reddit is from 2005 and the fediverse became “popular” in small niches after the mods exodus a couple of years ago